Server DELL PowerEdge XE7740 H100 NVL Xeon 6 6747P

Server DELL PowerEdge XE7740 / NVIDIA H100 NVL 94GB / Intel Xeon 6 Performance 6747P 2.7G, 48C/96T, 24GT/s, 288M Cache.

Server: Dell PowerEdge XE7740

The Dell PowerEdge XE7740 is a dedicated server optimized for GPUs. Its key feature is the Direct Liquid Cooling (DLC) system. This allows it to effectively dissipate the huge amount of heat generated by powerful components such as the NVIDIA H100, ensuring stable operation under maximum load.

·       Purpose: Designed for the most intensive computing tasks where standard air cooling is not enough.

·       Design: Compact and dense, allowing you to place maximum computing power in a single server.

·       Key benefit: Provides stability and maximum performance for top-end GPUs and CPUs.

Graphics accelerator: NVIDIA H100 NVL 94GB

It's not just a single GPU, but a pair of NVIDIA H100 GPUs (Hopper architecture) connected together by a high-speed NVLink interface. This allows them to function as a single, giant GPU.

·       NVL (NVLink): A technology that combines two GPUs. The main advantage is a combined video memory pool. In your case, this is 2×94 GB=188 GB of available memory, which is critical for working with very large language models (LLM).

·       Performance: The H100 is one of the most powerful AI accelerators in the world. It is equipped with 4th generation tensor cores and the Transformer Engine , which significantly accelerates the training and inference of models like GPT-4.

·       Purpose: Training and deploying the largest AI models, complex scientific simulations, processing giant data sets.

CPU: Intel Xeon 6 Performance 6747P

This is Intel's next-generation processor designed for data centers. The "P" (Performance) index means it's built on high-performance cores.

·       Model: Intel Xeon 6 6747P

·       Clock frequency: 2.7 GHz (base)

·       Cores/Threads: 48 cores/96 threads — a huge number for parallel processing, operating system management, and GPU support.

·       Cache memory: 288 MB — large cache volume for fast data access.

·       UPI (Ultra Path Interconnect): 24 GT/s — high-speed connection between processors in a dual-processor system.

·       The role of the CPU in such a system: although the GPU performs the main calculations, a powerful CPU like this is necessary for:

·       Preparing and loading data for GPU.

·       Managing complex workflows.

·       Executing those parts of the code that cannot be parallelized on the GPU.

Summary and usage scenarios

This configuration is a no-compromise solution for advanced research and commercial projects in the field of AI.

Main usage scenarios:

·       Training Large Language Models (LLM): The huge amount of memory (188 GB) on the H100 NVL allows you to load models with hundreds of billions of parameters without having to break them into pieces.

·       Generative AI: Creating images, videos, code, and other content at high speed.

·       High-performance computing (HPC): Molecular modeling, fluid dynamics calculations, financial modeling, and other scientific simulations that require extreme computing power.

·       Real-time data analytics: Processing huge streams of data to identify patterns and anomalies.